Can Neg Explain the Spatial Distribution of Wages of Chile

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ID10834736
AuthorsDusan Paredes (0000-0002-7090-5919, Department of Economics Universidad Catolica del Norte Chile, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume106
Issue1
Pages65-77
Publication date2015-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-747X • E-ISSN: 1467-9663
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tesg.12088
OpenAlexW1690272408
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited27

The new economic geography ( NEG ) has been tested to explain the spatial concentration of wages in developed countries, but it has not been evaluated for developing countries where the excessive spatial concentration seems to be related with negative consequences on the economic development. This paper covers this gap in the literature estimating by first time a NEG model for a developing country such as Chile, pursuing two research question: (1) Can the NEG explain the spatial distribution of wages in a developing country as Chile?; and (2) How can the NEG be used to infer information about the future level of spatial concentration of wages in Chile? The results suggest that the case of Chile is poorly explained by the NEG and even higher level of spatial concentration should be expected in the future. These results indicate that the empirical application of NEG is not trivial for developing countries, and some considerations such as inclusion of the first nature or analysis at micro data level must be incorporated by future researches

Demographic economics · Developing country · Distribution (mathematics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Inclusion (mineral · Sociology · Spatial dependence · Spatial distribution · Statistics · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Mathematics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis

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